Review: "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" is a disappointingly dry, mechanical adaptation
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Film Rating: B–
My “Intro To Film” professor had a mantra about adapting books into movies: “The filmmaker’s only obligation is to stay true to the spirit of the original work.” The implication, of course, is that cinema is a vastly different medium from literature, and if one doesn’t make the necessary changes, the result won’t feel truly cinematic, bu…
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